Either For Or Against



Either for or against,
The healthy survival of humanity.
To save its existence.
There is no middle ground.
Left to leave,
Delusion to fiction it as reality..

Stubborn are the ones...
Doing their best,
At what needs to be done.
For the ultimate benefit,
That provides everyone...
A better quality of life.
With a putting aside a pretentiousness,
Some have been born...
Doing to eat what they ate.
Done to do without it to eliminate.
This proven similarity,
God alone has created.
Whatever goes in the mouth comes out.
Regardless where one lives.
In a box, apartment or a house.

When many are sold and bought to buy,
Whatever it is they believe...
Guarantees them acceptance.
And approval of their conformity.
Quick they become,
Followers to go along...
With a program to prove,
Themselves participants.
In manufactured conflicts and division.
And other...
Fraudulent misdeeding acts.

Only to arrive where they started at!
Pointing fingers to claim the blame,
On others...
Given their support and endorsement.
To attack those innocent.
With a doing too late to rely upon,
Common sense.
And the absence of its use.
Done to repeatedly beg for a forgiveness.
As if this will cure,
The lives of those...
They consciously abuse.
To expect their activities forgotten.

Mistakes to make?
It is possible in time,
They can and will be forgiven.
However...
Intentions premeditated.
And strategically planned to initiate?
Is going to take more than time.
With a tolerating of lip biting patience.
To erase from one's mind.
What was neither sought to buy.
Or believe the benefit of it,
Satisfies to replace...
That which one had in the first place.
To have had it told to tell,
Destroying it has its consequences.

Renovating to update or replace it,
Has never restored what was had.
To believe it can come back as it was.
Ask anyone,
Who misses a perfect relationship.
Done to believe,
A better one is theirs to get.
Only in time to awaken,
From a delusion to recognize...
Following along to fiction life,
Does not feed a craving...
For a taste of reality told to despise it!

'What on Earth have I done?'

'To me?
To yourself?
To who?'

'That...
I am not yet sure.
But I am hoping all of it,
Has been a mirage.'

'Well...
If it has been a mirage.
Declare it yours to own!
I have had enough fiction to live as it is!
And...
Coming out of that addiction,
Took me years to admit...
My own ignorance.'

'Was it painful?'

'At first, very.
Then I realized I was not alone,
Self inflicting it!
Stupid is as stupid does.'

'You think me to be stupid?'

'Are you kidding?
If I said yes...
I would have to confess,
Of having been stupid myself.
Let's just leave it as being ignorant.
That way...
Both of us will feel better.
To know we acknowledge,
Improvement made isn't impossible.'
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Submitted by lpahtillah on March 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XABXCA XXDEDFBXGGAHXXX ICBAXXXXDJX KXXLLXXMXNXMD XODJXGOBXIEPPQR EXXDXCXDXFSE D ATX KNEU QUVXXDEB W AVER H SXXTLXJXW
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,766
Words 600
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 6, 15, 11, 13, 15, 12, 1, 3, 4, 8, 1, 4, 1, 9

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